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Everyone is welcome to our Physics colloquia, which take place on Wednesdays at 3:20pm in ABB-102. Refreshments are served beforehand in ABB-273.
Suggestions for speakers can be sent to the colloquium chair (Cecile Fradin: )
September 12, 2012 3:20 pm
Connecting the Dots: Transition Pathways Between Ordered Phases of Block Copolymers

Dr. An-Chang Shi , McMaster University

September 19, 2012 3:20 pm
Quantum Control using Nano-Earthquakes

Dr. James Stotz , Queen's University

September 26, 2012 3:20 pm
Imaging Supermassive Black holes on Horizon Scales

Dr. Avery Broderick , University of Waterloo

October 3, 2012 3:20 pm
Topological order & long-range entanglements: A totally new kind of quantum materials and an unification of light and electrons

Dr. Xiao-Gang Wen , Massachuasetts Institute of Technology

October 10, 2012 3:20 pm
A Survey of Molecular Gas in Luminous Sub-millimetre Galaxies

Dr. Scott Chapman , Dalhousie University

October 17, 2012 3:20 pm
The Discovery of a Higgs-like Particle

Dr. Pierre Savard , University of Toronto

October 24, 2012 3:20 pm
Multimodal Imaging/Spectroscopy Approaches for Studying Ceramide-induced Reorganization of Lipid Membranes

Dr. Linda Johnston , NRC

October 31, 2012 3:20 pm
Quantum Signatures of Chaos

Dr. Shohini Ghose , Wilfrid Laurier University

November 7, 2012 3:20 pm
How the Milky Ways ticks: comprehending complexity in the interstellar medium, from ethereal wisps to dense structures at the onset of star formation (part I!)

Dr. Peter Martin , University of Toronto

November 14, 2012 3:20 pm
Understanding the Universe using rare isotopes

Dr. Reiner Kruecken , TRIUMF/UBC

November 21, 2012 3:20 pm
Shedding infrared light on high-Tc superconductivity

Dr. Dimtri Basov , University of California, San Diego

November 28, 2012 3:20 pm
Biophysics of Lipid Bilayer and Protein Interaction Modulated by Curvature

Dr. Tobias Baumgart , University of Pennsylvania

December 5, 2012 3:20 pm
Proteins that Lead to Topological Transitions in Membranes

Dr. Gerard Wong , California NanoSystems Institute - UCLA

January 9, 2013 3:20 pm
Inflation, or What?

Dr. William Kinney, University of Buffalo , University of Buffalo

January 16, 2013 3:20 pm
Dust-obscured Activity in High Redshift Galaxies

Dr. Alexandra Pope , University of Massachusetts

January 23, 2013 3:20 pm
Quantum Optomechanics: A Mechanical Platform for Quantum Information and Quantum Foundations

Dr. Marcus Aspelmeyer, University of Vienna , University of Vienna

January 30, 2013 3:20 pm
Diffusion of Transmembrane Proteins and Peptides Embedded in Lipid Bilayers

Dr. Nicolas Taulier , Universite Pierre et Marie Curie

February 6, 2013 3:20 pm
The Life Cycle of Star Clusters

Dr. Rupali Chandar, University of Toledo , University of Toledo

February 13, 2013 3:20 pm
Why We Must Teach Using Student-Student Interaction.

Dr. Alan Slavin, Trent University , Trent University

February 27, 2013 3:20 pm
Studying Galaxies in the Early Universe with Innovative Astronomical Instrumentation

Dr. Shelly Wright, Dunlap Institute , Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics

March 4, 2013 4:30 pm
The Higgs Particle…and so what?

Dr. Francois Corriveau , McGill University

March 6, 2013 3:20 pm
Is the Electron Round?

Dr. Ed Hinds, Imperial College London , Imperial College London

March 13, 2013 3:20 pm
Tunable Topological States in Graphene and Other Dirac Materials

Dr. Dmitry Abanin, Princeton University , Princeton University

March 27, 2013 3:20 pm
Babylonian Astronomy: The Birth of Predictive Science

Dr. John Steele, Brown University , Brown University

April 3, 2013 3:20 pm
An Example of a Quantum Anomaly in Physics of Cold Atomic Gases

Dr. Maxim Olchanyi, Univ of Massachusetts , University of Massachusetts at Boston

April 10, 2013 3:20 pm
'Does the chemical bond exist?

Dr. David Brown, McMaster University , McMaster University

April 16, 2013 2:30 pm
Molecular mechanisms of amyloid fibril formation and toxicity in relation to Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Zoya Leonekno , University of Waterloo

April 17, 2013 3:20 pm
Results from the Planck CMB Satellite

Dr. Kendrick Smith, Princeton University

April 19, 2013 3:30 pm
Equation Of State Of A 'Unitary' Fermionic Gas Of Ultracold Atoms

Dr. Rajat Bhaduri , , Department of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University

April 24, 2013 3:20 pm
Membrane Structure, Simulation and Scattering

Dr. John Katsaras , Oakridge National Laboratory

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